““Criminal justice” was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.”

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don’t know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

For just once in my life, I’d like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who’s got an attitude about the way I look.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.’ My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

No matter how old we get, life’s always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you’ve learned ten times before.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could they conquer you?

Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.

Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime?

I’m just saying the producers and people who work on music are getting left out – that’s when it starts getting criminal. It’s like you’re working hard, and you’re not receiving. In any other business, people would be standing before Congress. They have antitrust laws against this kind of behavior.

Get his master’s in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around.